Dog Walking Heaven: Dog Walking for Two

Sun, snow, rain or wind… It doesn’t matter what kind of weather we face. As soon as we step outside the door, my dog is excited and ready for a walk. If only I could drum up as much enthusiasm for getting up and taking him out every morning. But like everything else, walking the dog is a habit that needs to be fostered. With practice, just like everything else, it gets easier.

But there are ways of approaching this activity so that it’s not a chore. Let’s face it, the dog never sees it as a chore so why can’t we capitalize on that enthusiasm and get excited about it too? Well, we need something to be excited about. Finding the enthusiasm to train your dog can be a trying matter, particularly if you come up against some of the more common dog training problems. But help is out there! The important thing is to realize that it’s not just your dog that’s going to benefit from the walk. By developing rituals and making the process into something you both enjoy and derive benefit from, the daily walk will become a pleasurable and bonding experience for you both. With a little know-how and persistence you can turn walking the dog into dog walking Nirvana for two.

Yoga To Strengthen Your Mind Or Yoga To Strengthen Your Body?

You can say Yoga to strengthen your body “or” Yoga to strengthen your mind but, in fact, it’s really a case of using Yoga to strengthen your body “and” your mind!

You can start out thinking that you can avoid all the esoteric and spiritual connotations connected with Yoga but it’ll be very hard to avoid the calming effect that doing the exercises has on your mind. This is similar to the focusing effect of using verbal affirmations but when combined with specific Yoga mantras the effect is electric.

Picture the scene: you learn a new posture to incorporate into your daily Yoga routine; this posture demands extreme concentration to find just the right position to get the maximum benefit from it; because of the angles, strength and discipline needed to hold the pose you have to concentrate and block out everything else.

What effect do you think this will have on your mind?

The beauty of learning new and demanding postures to use in your daily yoga program is that, by default, your mind becomes focused on your body. When your mind is engaged to this extent it becomes almost impossible to think of anything else. The result is a relaxed and empty mind.

In addition to the effect of strengthening your mind you can add extra movement to your Yoga exercise to increase the cardio-vascular element of your practice. This is particularly true of Ashtanga Yoga and results in a stronger body. But there’s always more than one way to approach a subject like this.

If you have the idea that something is going to be unpleasant and cause you pain then you’re unlikely to engage with it with any enthusiasm. If however, you use something to enhance the practice like powerful words or sounds, then it will raise your practice to a new level and give you renewed positive focus.

While putting your body through its paces with demanding physical postures and improving your immune and respiratory systems with regular and systematic breathing, your mind will focus with rejuvenated clarity. This is why you should use Yoga to strengthen your body and Yoga to strengthen your mind!

The Physical Power of Your Words and Thoughts

The phrase “Be careful what you wish for” is an interesting and loaded phrase. Wishing, after all, is a bit like praying and invokes some of the basic universal laws that make the world go round. Unfortunately there’s an element of superstition or negativity association with the idea that you can invoke good things in your life. Most people will admit superstition about it at some level – don’t think bad things or bad things will happen! Putting together a vision board is a good way of focusing your intentions and the positive aspects of your wishes and will help you formalize your thoughts. If you get up in the morning and write a to do list down in a diary isn’t it something similar?

If you really want to empower those thoughts then you can add a daily affirmation practice. Some carefully chosen words have the power to change the way you think at a subconscious level. It’s the subconscious level that really affects the flow of energy in the universe. That’s why you need to be careful what you wish for. It’s nothing to do with having negative things come into your life but simply that you can save yourself a lot of grief by shaping the world you want to live in correctly the first time you wish for it!

Practical Ways to Make a Realistic Vision Board

I recently saw a question about making vision boards… “Can a vision board be 3D?” Put simply the answer is yes. If you want to use the laws of attraction as well then it helps to make it as realistic as you can. It’s really up to you and you respond to neuro linguistic programing (NLP). To find out more about your NLP preferences try reading some of the schemes and programs published by Tony Robbins such as Unlimited Power or Awaken the Giant Within.

Going back to the original question, when making a vision board you want it to be as creative and unconventional as possible. There aren’t any rules and there are certainly no boundaries because this is the time to play. If the fancy takes you then – yes – make your vision board as multi-dimensional as possible. Imagine looking at a photo of Martin Luther King and recalling his speech. Now imagine the extra impact of seeing the photo and reading his words alongside. Then think how it would be if you could actually hear a recording of him talking as you look at hm. Which do you think has the greatest impact?

So it’ll help to turn convention on its head, or side, or back or however you’d like to think of it and just build it up any way you like. There’s a reason why virtual reality is so popular and architects make models. The mind responds so much more favorably to vivid images because, in fact, it can’t tell the difference between what’s real and what’s imagined. This is why to achieve success it’s so important to visualize it first.

So, yeah, go on, make your vision board two dimensional, three dimensional or four dimensional if you can think of a way. Anything goes but it’ll be most effective if you really enjoy the process!

MindZoom: User Tips for Affirmations

The MindZoom affirmation package is a nifty little number that has cool features to make daily affirmations part of your technological setup! I’ve been using it for a bit now and here are just a few tips for what you can do with it…

• it comes with an almost limitless supply of prepared affirmations for most subjects you’ll find on the self-help shelves. Even if you use the ones that come with the package you can still open them and edit the wording to tweak them in a way that makes them more appropriate for your own personal use. The computer voice synthesizer will be able to incorporate them into the system quite easily and assimilate an audio stream.
• even if you only decide to use the platform as it stands you can still play your own music on a media player in the background. I can almost say with certainty, however, that once you see what the subliminal mixer can do it won’t be long before you’re feeling all creative and playing around with mixing your own new age affirmations tracks and saving them as an mp3 to put onto the iPod.
• if you’re like me and you really respond well to an upbeat… well… er… beat, then just choose your favorite motivational track from your music collection and use that as the base sound for your mix down in the subliminal mixer.
• if you’re studying or trying to learn something then make sure you add the Alpha track to the mix. You can even make your own Alpha beat mp3 and just play that along while you do your work with the package running and flashing the affirmations on the screen!
• if you make an affirmation mix down and find you still want to use those sounds (on mp3 or WAV) with the visual affirmations, then just start the package running and play your audio mix down in the background on a separate media player. It works just as well and Dino (the creator) assures me that it will be just as effective.

I’m learning new things every day so if there’s anything really ground breaking then I’ll update it here so that MindZoom subliminal messaging can be even more effective!

Daily Affirmations Help from MindZoom

I wrote a review of MindZoom software for subliminal daily affirmations and found a couple of issues I needed help with. I couldn’t play a mixed down file alongside the software and I wondered if there was a way of launching a customized sound stream with the visual package. There’s also over $400 worth of bonus material included that I’d somehow forgotten to get in the download process. I only found out about this because I was trawling other reviews on YouTube and they referred to the material. So I guess it’s not that obvious on the download page. But I’ve now updated the page with the response from the help desk. Their response was great. Dino emailed me back within 12 hours and told me that the mix down needs to  be played separately but that you can run the visual package alongside. I’ve tried it and itt works just as well. I’ve  also got a link to the download page for the bonus materials so I won’t miss out on that. Well done MindZoom! My daily affirmations will never be the same again…

Namaste.

Now I’m Using MindZoom for Daily Affirmations!

A practice of daily affirmations is very important to me but as of this week I simplified the process.  I’ve managed to combine two of my main passions in life – possibly of quite a contrary nature – a love of all things spiritual, such as my Tibetan singing bowls and a love of technology. I can spend hours fiddling around with audio tracks and I often use mixes of music with autistic children where I work. But now I’m using MindZoom properly and I’m learning new stuff about it every day. If you want to read a review of my experiences then go to my lens and you’ll get an in depth account of how MindZoom works with daily affirmations and sounds.

I hope it’s useful!

Namaste…

Experiences with Using Daily Affirmations, Yoga and Sound!

Hey there! I’ve recently been looking into how to use affirmations after years of slogging away at it with Yoga and an endless amount of self-help/personal development programmes. I first came across using affirmations with yoga after a trip to the yoga retreat centre on Clare Island way back in 2003. There I experienced mantras in combination with doing the Sun Salutations in the context of Ashtanga Yoga. It was HARD WORK! Two hours of hard exercise every day. But the sounds were amazing. And it was just the sounds. So I wondered about how to use sound for daily affirmations and got very interested in Tibetan singing bowls. If you spend any time with these wonderful instruments it becomes clear that it’s more about the vibrations and the feel of the sounds. So everything seems to work at a subliminal level. Auto-suggestion comes to mind. It reminds me of a programme of language learning called Suggestopedia used back in the cold war by the Soviets to train their spies to speak like a native quickly. In the course of my reading around the subject of self-hypnosis and subliminal messaging I’ve also come across some subliminal messaging software that can also help you absorb positive messages to change your life view and get you motivated. It’s just the start of the journey for me but it’s exciting already!